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to make what is termed the master the most 

 miserable person in the family. If you en- 

 gage a man to perform a certain business, 

 and he obtain payment beforehand, which is 

 sometimes unavoidable, should he choose 

 to leave you before the work is completed, 

 you have no means of redress, nor can 

 you oblige him to finish his contract. 



Liberty and equality may truly be said 

 to destroy all civil magistracy, and to take 

 away all the graces so well spoken of by 

 Lord Chesterfield. The following fact will 

 establish the truth of the above remark. It 

 is customary in America for a magistrate to 

 go to a tavern, to do the business of the 

 country : When on my travels, having put 

 up my horse at Bush, betwixt Philadelphia 

 and Baltimore, I heard a great noise in one 

 room in the house; curiosity led me to look 

 in, and I observed a rabble as if assembled to, 

 a cock-fight. I stood some time to hear thq 

 conversation, which to my surprise con- 

 sisted of cases i n law 7 , and a great many 

 opinions were given. When I left the 

 room, I asked the tavern-keeper, what the 



